Launceston's Bike Centre set for reopening | The Examiner | April 12, 2025 - video Dailymotion

Launceston's beloved Bike Centre is set to reopen to the public, with online bookings available from 8am on Monday, April 14. Video by Joe Colbrook

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00:00it's taken five years and 3.8 million dollars but Launceston's Road Safety Centre otherwise

00:13known as the bike centre is set to reopen to the public the facility was closed in 2019 due to a

00:19landslide however when crews got in to assess the damage they found the situation worse than

00:24they initially thought prompting the lengthy closure and bigger project so it's had structural

00:28engineers it's had landscape architects it's had our parks team in terms of the equipment and design

00:35it's had a project management team internal to council it's had some surveyors engineers there

00:42have been so many people involved in this obviously Mel the artist as well it's been a really big team

00:47effort and I think it's something that we should be really proud of we listened to the community

00:51through the design process and and they told us that they wanted the bike centre as it was obviously

00:58we've made some pretty big improvements here with additional shade and shelter improved play aspects

01:03but we've really wanted to keep at the heart of the project the same theme so that's the road network

01:08it's about being a space that kids can ride around not only on their bikes but scooters skateboards it's

01:16it's a really great open space we're really proud of the outcome that's come here today to have had not

01:22only the community along on this journey with the council and the investment the financial investment

01:27but also to have the Labor Albanese government coming in on board as well with Senator Helen Polly we're

01:32super proud of how this has come together and we're really pleased to be opening it from 8am that's

01:37when you'll be able to book on Monday the two sessions $35 a session incredibly affordable and

01:42now we really look forward to how this space here continues to generate conversations connections for generations to come

01:52so we'll be able to review this time and see you next time

01:57so we can join us on the show we need to move out to the next session

01:59so I'm going to be able to update on the channel so let's be able to jump through the next thing

02:02I've been able to update on the channel and see you there will be a little bit of a link

02:05so I can just explain that i don't think that i make sure you'll be able to have any time

02:07but I'm going to say you're going to take a couple of the links and if you want to be able to jump through the next session

02:11and I can actually take a couple of the links to a whole bunch of pages

02:13and I'm going to talk about the site SOAP